RIB
\ʁib\
The verdict
“RIB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,138) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,138
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relevé d’identité bancaire, document émis par une institution bancaire pour authentifier le lien entre un numéro de compte bancaire et un titulaire, que celui-ci soit une personne physique ou morale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rib · RIB · French
RIB · rank #36,138 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,138
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revivez
Nearest frequency peer: revivez (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « RIB »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- retrancher
retrancher
63,866 corpus weight
- reversés
reversés
63,865 corpus weight
- revivez
revivez
63,864 corpus weight
- RIB
RIB
63,863 corpus weight
- ridiculisé
ridiculisé
63,862 corpus weight
- rigolote
rigolote
63,861 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « RIB » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | RIB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁib\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « RIB »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for RIB is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁib\. Frequency #36,138 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Relevé d’identité bancaire, document émis par une institution bancaire pour authentifier le lien entre un numéro de compte bancaire et un titulaire, que celui-ci soit une personne physique ou morale.".
Zero misspellings are on record for RIB in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is RIB, spelled R-I-B.
Definition
- 1Relevé d’identité bancaire, document émis par une institution bancaire pour authentifier le lien entre un numéro de compte bancaire et un titulaire, que celui-ci soit une personne physique ou morale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how RIB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En France, un compte bancaire est identifié par son RIB (Relevé d'Identité Bancaire), son RIP (Relevé d'Identité Postal) ou son RICE (Relevé d'Identité des Caisses d'Epargne).
Si je scanne vite fait votre RIB, je vous fais un virement direct.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).